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Eccentric training has the ability to improve strength and power as well as being a stimulus for hypertrophy gains. However a possible negative side effect is exercise induced muscle damage, which can have a detrimental effect on performance. The symptoms and causes of exercise induced muscle damage and the ability of the RBE to protect against muscle damage are discussed in this review. A search of the literature was conducted for; eccentric; training; methods; exercise induced muscle damage (EIMD); RBE. After this search 82 papers were selected to form the basis of this review. The finding of this review suggest if isometric contractions are used as a preconditioning exercise these should be completed at long muscle lengths with 10 isometric contractions reported to result in the greatest protective effect. Results of previous studies indicate that 30 repetitions of eccentric contractions at 10-40% maximal …